BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for upholding Vermont's maple syrup gold standard, Robb family!
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Hello and good day to you, residents of lovely Windham County, Vermont! I hope that this past week has been a good one for you. If you're reading this, you're still up and taking nourishment, as my father likes to say. As hard as adult life is sometimes, let's work to be grateful for even the simplest gifts in our lives. As for our weekly weather picture, we're going to see some showers move through on Wednesday. Winds will shift...
First off, on panhandling: We - my disabled husband and I - lived in a canvas tent up Putney Road from 2021 to 2023. Not once in our two years of being homeless did we ever need to panhandle for anything. Neither of us work. We have very little income from SSI (Supplemental Security Income) and SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance), and we fall below the poverty line. Since we choose not to spend our money on drugs or alcohol,
The Blanche Moyse Chorale next month will perform an eclectic program of a cappella and accompanied choral works, under the title “Reflections on the Passage of Time.” The concert will be performed Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Stone Church Center in Bellows Falls, and Sunday, April 15, at 4 p.m. at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro. The concert opens with three motets by the 17th-century German composer Johann Hermann Schein. Using texts from the Judaic scriptures, the...
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